"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me," writer C.S. Lewis once said. If you, like Lewis, fancy turning pages while taking tea or, like the poet T. S. Eliot's character J. Alfred Prufrock, measure out your life with coffee spoons, here are 10 bookshops, cafes and bars in Singapore where you can settle down with a drink in one hand and a good book in the other.

This luxurious library, housed in a colonial-style 19th-century building, is part of heritage hotel Six Senses Maxwell by French designer Jacques Garcia, which opened in December last year.